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No Smoke Without Fire: Fire Service Liability - Andrew Roy, 12 King's Bench Walk 13 Aug 2013 | 01:59 pm
13/08/13. Wembridge and 14 others v (1) Winter (2) East Sussex Fire Service and another [2013] EWHC 2331 (QB). These claims arose out of a mass explosion which occurred at a fireworks factory at Marli...
Legionnaires’ Disease, Is There a Claim? - Kirsty Clifton, Ascot Lawyers 12 Aug 2013 | 01:42 pm
12/08/13. Headache, muscle pain, high fever, chest pain, a persistent cough, breathing difficulties, loss of appetite, diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting.... this may sound like a nasty bout of the flu, h...
Jackson in Action: the 1st April Reforms Begin to Take Effect - Shirley Denyer, Shirley Denyer LLP & Knowledge Services Consultant for FOIL 10 Aug 2013 | 08:28 pm
10/08/13. Four months in from the introduction of the new rules both claimant and defendant lawyers are getting used to the new regime and attention is turning to how the new rules work in practice. E...
Decoding the Statutory Defence - Mark Fowles, Browne Jacobson LLP 2 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
02/08/13. We tend to forget how novel, in the context of the history of personal injury claims, are accidents on the highway. The current Section 41 of the Highways Act 1981 can trace its history back...
RTA Post Jackson, How to Deal With Them 3 Months on: What Have We Learned? - Andrew Mckie, Clerksroom 1 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
01/08/13. Referral Fees - They are now Banned! (LASPO), Sections 56, 57 and 59 of the Act are in relation to the prohibition of the payment and receipt of referral fees in personal injury cases commen...
Editorial: Opoku v Tintas: Court of Appeal on Period of Hire - Aidan Ellis, Temple Garden Chambers 22 Jul 2013 | 04:40 pm
22/07/13. Challenging the period of hire in a credit hire case has always been a difficult issue for Insurers. In many credit hire cases it is the period of hire more than the daily rate that Insurers...
Editorial: Opoku v Tintas: Court of Appeal on Period of Hire - Aidan Ellis, Temple Garden Chambers 22 Jul 2013 | 04:36 pm
22/07/13. Challenging the period of hire in a credit hire case has always been a difficult issue for Insurers. In many credit hire cases it is the period of hire more than the daily rate that Insurers...
The Expanded Portal and Predictable Costs Regimes - Matthew Hoe, Jaggards & Taylor Rose Law 17 Jul 2013 | 06:32 pm
17/07/13. The new fixed cost rules were published on Friday 12th July, in the Civil Procedure (Amendment No 6) Rules 2013 (SI 2013/1695). The fixed costs will apply to most (but not all) personal inju...
Little Things to Know About the Revised Detailed Assessment Procedure - Matthew Hoe, Jaggards & Taylor Rose Law 16 Jul 2013 | 05:54 pm
16/07/13. The Jackson reforms changed costs overnight. Some of the changes were heralded with widespread commentary, and continue to receive it. There are other changes, critical to practitioners, tha...
Payment by Outcome: Don’t Tell the Expert - Ian Gascoigne, Eversheds 12 Jul 2013 | 06:33 pm
12/07/13. Like an unwanted Christmas present returned to the store with its gift receipt on any 28th December, the inception of damages-based agreements has not brought joy. We have been told that the...
